ports: Add context information about official and non-official ports

Mention their status, and what they are part of, and where to find them.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/english/ports/index.wml b/english/ports/index.wml
index 434a86d705f..0b9ddc770a9 100644
--- a/english/ports/index.wml
+++ b/english/ports/index.wml
@@ -38,7 +38,11 @@
 </div>
 
 <toc-add-entry name="portlist-released">List of official ports</toc-add-entry>
-<br />
+
+<p>
+These ports are the officially supported architectures by the Debian project,
+and either part of an official release or to be part of an upcoming one.
+</p>
 
 <table class="tabular" summary="">
 <tbody>
@@ -137,6 +141,19 @@ a free/open ISA.</td>
 
 <toc-add-entry name="portlist-other">List of other ports</toc-add-entry>
 
+<p>
+These ports are either work in progress efforts that intend to eventually
+be promoted into officially released architectures, ports that were once
+officially supported but stopped being released because failed the release
+qualification or had limited developer interest, or ports that are no
+longer worked on and are listed for historical interest.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+These ports, when they are still actively maintained, are available on
+the <url "https://www.ports.debian.org/"> infrastructure.
+</p>
+
 <div class="tip">
 <p>
  There are non-official installation images available for some of the following ports in